Zoidberg!

"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01) 08/28/2016 at 13:42 • Filed to: None

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All taken this morning - went to look at an apartment, and we may finally (after 17 months) have found something.

W. 82nd and Amsterdam

Amsterdam near W. 79th

W. 74th Street

Bonus Volvo - sometimes parks in front of my building (170 W. 74th Street) and has a Darwin fish on the tailgate. My people.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan 08/28/2016 at 16:07

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That Echo. Noooo. The Yaris wasn’t a particularly great looking car but to add a boot on like that just makes it, meh.

Glad you may finally of found a suitable apartment that is hopefully neither compact and bijou nor priced out of pocket.

Steve in Manhattan > Svend 08/28/2016 at 16:40

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It would be a gut renovation, but it’s priced right and on 79th, so the commute won’t change much and we’ll keep shopping/getting deliveries from the same places. The pain in the ass part is hiring a contractor, getting approvals (board, city) then paying rent plus a mortgage for a month or two while they make it liveable.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan 08/28/2016 at 16:55

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Red tape and bureaucracy is everywhere these days I’m afraid.

It’s a means to an end though fella.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Steve in Manhattan 08/28/2016 at 18:29

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Those Solara convertibles are just the definition of gopping.

Steve in Manhattan > Svend 08/28/2016 at 20:53

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Here it’s easier to buy a condo - this is a coop, so they’ll want everything from us short of blood and stool samples. At least this building is pet-friendly - one building said the board had to approve our cats! Two other apartments we looked at (and rejected) had elevator operators - you couldn’t press a button and go home! In this building they let me use the freight elevator by myself.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan 08/28/2016 at 21:16

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Wow. We call these people ‘jobs-worths’, they over complicate everything.

Too many people are too concerned about how others live their lives that they don’t live their own life and want to shove their opinions and rules onto others.

Personally if I went to see a house/apartment and they brought up the subject of a board or committee I’d be telling them to shove their house/apartment up their arse sideways unless they were prepared to pay the mortgage.

Paying a fortune for self opinionated A-holes you’ve never met to tell you what to do with your own property.

I don’t think I could live in the U.S., I’d always have a WTF expression on my face and shouting ‘what the fuck do you mean...’.

Steve in Manhattan > IanZ - limited-slip indifferential 08/29/2016 at 08:24

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It's like they stopped designing it after the C pillar and let the rear just fall away.